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Chadian
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Friday 19 February
2007, by Dr. Djimé
Adoum, tchadnews.info,
sahelien@hotmail.com
Until Monday,
February 18, 2007, nothing good comes out of
Chad. The country is experiencing severe
heartburns resulting from the confiscation of
power by President Deby. In addition, the
country, particularly the eastern part is also
home to many refugees caught between the ill
effects of proxy wars between Chad and Sudan.
It has been known for quite some time that the
opposition in Chad, particularly the
politico-military has been trying to unseat
President Deby.
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Feb 15, 2007 (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. has reached
an agreement with Chad that opens the way for
grant military transfers to that country along
with surplus U.S. defense equipment.
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Oxfam urges action as Security Council meets
on Chad
N'DJAMENA, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Aid agency Oxfam urged the
international community to tackle rising violence in
eastern Chad before it becomes "another Darfur", ahead
of a Security Council meeting on Thursday to decide on a
peacekeeping force.
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Feb 17, 2007
(DAKAR/NEW YORK) — As the United Nations Security
Council prepares for discussions this week on
sending peacekeepers to eastern Chad, aid agencies
working there are pressing the humanitarian need for
rapid deployment, but observers in New York say
significant political and logistical obstacles
remain to getting boots on the ground.
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Tripartite
presence poses serious risks to democracy
and good governance in Chad.
Dr. Djime Adoum,
sahelien@hotmail.com,
tchadnews.info
The presence of the
United States, France and China in Chad coupled with the
manmade catastrophes in Chad and Sudan saps life out of
Chadian citizens. For all intents and purposes, the
country is disintegrating and the presence of the
tripartite holds little or nothing to affect positive
change. The Chadian people will have to wait for a long
time before positive change can occur.
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Reporters Without Borders
today called for the release of journalist and human
rights activist Marcel Ngargoto, who has been held by
gendarmes in the southern town of Moïssala since 31
January. Ngargoto works for Radio Brakoss, a Moïssala-based
community radio. He is also secretary-general of Human
Rights Without Borders (DHSF).
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An important delivery of weapons from Belgium
A first cargo of ten Armored tanks AML 90 would have
arrived, Saturday, morning, in Chad, coming from
Belgium, according to a source close to the Chadian
army. It is the first delivery of an order of forty
French manufactured armored tanks, AML 90, delivered in
Belgium by South Africa.
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Chad
forces 'repel assault'
 Chadian
government forces have said they fought back a raid
by fighters attempting overthrow Idriss Deby, the
president.
A spokesman for the rebel group said
the attackers had "achieved their objectives" and
then pulled out of the eastern town of Adre, near
the border with the Sudanese region of Darfur.
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Use of Child Soldiers by Armed Groups in
Eastern Chad--
In
research missions to eastern Chad in 2006,
Human Rights Watch observed children who
have been recruited into armed groups
including the Chadian armed forces, the
Sudanese rebel movements and Tora Boro
militias.201
This is in direct violation of the Optional
Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of
the Child on the Involvement of Children in
Armed Conflict (generally known as the Child
Soldiers Protocol), to which Chad is party;202
it establishes eighteen as the minimum age
for direct participation in hostilities, for
compulsory recruitment, and for any
recruitment or use in hostilities by
irregular armed groups.203
(...)
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(Brussels, February 2,
2007) – The Senegalese National Assembly’s adoption
on Wednesday of a law to allow Senegalese courts to
try the exiled former dictator of Chad, Hissène
Habré, is an important step toward justice, Human
Rights Watch said today.
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AU Should Name Envoy
to Prepare Habré’s Trial
(Brussels, January 26,
2007) – Six months after Senegal agreed to an
African Union request that it prosecute Chad's
former dictator, it has moved very slowly in
bringing Hissène Habré to trial on charges of crimes
against humanity, Human Rights Watch said in a
briefing paper released today.
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Militia
Attacks and Ethnic Targeting of Civilians in Eastern
Chad, by
Human Rights Watch, January 2007.
Download PDF of report with cover
(695
KB, 74 pages)
FEATURE-Climate change, human pressure shrink Lake Chad,
02 Feb
2007 14:08:41 GMT,
Source: Reuters,
By Stephanie Hancock---BOL, Chad, Feb 2 (Reuters) - As
the sun sets on Lake Chad, fishermen in simple wooden
pirogues paddle back to shore with their day's catch.
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Violence in Chad hampers Darfur aid efforts -UNHCR--02
Feb 2007 13:55:30 GMT,
Source: Reuters,
By Betel Miarom, N'DJAMENA, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Rampant
insecurity along Chad's eastern border with Darfur is
hampering efforts to aid hundreds of thousands of
refugees, underlining the need for international
peacekeepers, U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Friday.
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by Ambassador Herman Cohen
Journal of International
Peace Operations
Volume 2, Number 1
(July-August 2006), p. 19
THE REPUBLIC of Chad has
suffered from chronic instability ever since
it achieved independence from France in
1960. Now, with violence spilling over its
eastern border from the genocidal conflict
in Sudan ’s Darfur region, the government of
Chad finds itself in an extremely precarious
position.
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What is the international community missing in the Darfur
crisis? By Ramadji Doumnande,
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In effect, the world has
never integrated the Chadian factor in trying to solve
the problem. It is the missing piece that has prevented
any viable solutions to the Darfur conflict but nobody
seems to care about it. I am afraid it will always come
back to haunt us and the crisis will drag on with
several other thousands of victims.(...)
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Interview with
Nathalie Losson, Executive Director of Caring For Kaela
(CFK),
an international Children 's Organization doing
humanitarian work in Chad.
© Interview by Armel Ramadji Doumnande,
Dec. 30th, 2006
Nathalie Losson, is the Executive Director of CFK, an
international children ’s organization conducting
humanitarian work and helping the most vulnerable in
Chad.
RAMADJI.com has spoken with Nathalie on various
issues related to her work in Chad.
Read the
interview.
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Fractious Chad Rebels Dismiss Deby Meeting,
By Nico Colombant
Dakar,
18 December 2006
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Chad calls on Angola for aid to stop Sudanese
aggression,
Posted on Thursday 14 December 2006.
http://sudantribune.com --17
December
2006,
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Eyewitness:
The battle for Abeche,
25 Nov 2006---Rebel
forces in Chad claim to have captured the eastern town
of Abeche. Georgiana Kasineanu, an NGO worker
there, told the BBC News website about the chaos
unfolding around her.
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 Rebels
seen inside east Chad town - aid worker,
25 Nov 2006 09:48:40 GMT,
Source: Reuters
N'DJAMENA, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Some Chadian rebels
entered the eastern town of Abeche in the latest attack
in their campaign against President Idriss Deby, but
earlier fighting there has subsided, a U.N. aid worker
said on Saturday.
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 Chad
rebels launch fresh offensive,
Fri Nov 24, 6:09 PM ET
---Chadian
rebels rolled into the east of the
country in their second offensive within
a month against President Idriss Deby
Itno, said the head of rebel group UFDD,
confirming earlier comments from French
and Chadian officials.
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The French
embassy in Chad has issued warnings to its citizens,
following reports that rebels gathering in the east are
planning a new offensive.
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Chad
extends state of emergency 6 months,
By HALIME ASSADYA ALI, Associated Press
Writer,
Fri Nov 24, 2:25 PM ET
---Chad
extended a state of emergency Friday for
six months in the country's eastern
provinces, where ethnic clashes have
killed as many as 400 people and raised
fears that Sudan's Darfur conflict is
spilling across the border.
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Prosecutors who want
Hissene Habre to face charges of crimes against
humanity say they face obstacles despite Senegalese
government's pledge to organize fair trial
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By Phuong Tran
Dakar
20 November 2006 |
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Tran report
(Real Audio) - Download 704k
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Prosecutors who
want Chad's exiled former ruler, Hissene Habre to
face charges of crimes against humanity say they
are facing obstacles despite a pledge by the
Senegalese government to organize a fair trial.
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Steps for Darfur: A Panel Discussion of the Brookings
Institution:
Monday, November
20, 2006
10:00 a.m. to
12:00 p.m.
The Brookings
Institution
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Jean-Marie
Gu?enno, Under Secretary-General for
Peacekeeping at the United Nations |
Andrew Natsios, U.S. Presidential Special
Envoy for Sudan |
Brookings Institution,
Washington, DC ( Nov. 20th, 2006): This November 20, the
Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement hosted
two senior officials, Jean-Marie Guehenno, Under
Secretary-General for Peacekeeping at the United
Nations, and Andrew Natsios, U.S. Presidential Special
Envoy for Sudan, for a discussion on new initiatives
being pursued to address the deteriorating situation in
Darfur. Carlos Pascual, vice president and director of
Foreign Policy Studies, moderated the discussion, and
Roberta Cohen, senior fellow and adviser to the
Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, made
introductory remarks. After the program, the
speakers took audience questions ranging from the
Chadian support to the Darfur rebels, the robustness of
the announced AU/UN "hybrid" forces, the urgency and the
worsening of the situation in the light of the recent
massacres in the Goz-Beida area in Chad,... Ramadji.com
was in the room to cover the invent for you. A detailed
report is in preparation but you can watch a full length
video of the event on C-SPAN's website at
http://cspan.org in the video/audio section.
Chad
to Send Troops to Fight Central African Republic
Rebellion
By Jordan Davis,
Dakar, 17 November 2006
Groundbreaking
Ceremony Held in Washington for Martin Luther King Jr.
Memorial,
By Stephanie Ho, Washington, 13 November 2006
Sleazy
countries are best at breaking New York
City’s parking rules
 (...)
between 1997 and 2002 diplomats from Chad averaged 124
unpaid parking violations;
diplomats
from Canada and the United Kingdom had none. ,
New York, source: The Economist, August 12th, 2006,
pp.28
...More
Autopsy of the new commandment of the
FUC put in place after a leadership
crisis,
source:
Gabonews, translation: courtesy of NL.
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Hissene
Habre – sadistic president, July 7, 2006,
Article by
Jean-Philippe Remy. Translation: courtesy of
Nathalie
Losson, July 7, 2006
African
Union: Senegal Agrees to Try Hissène Habré
July 7, 2006
Dakar Must Move
Quickly to Prosecute Chad’s Ex-Dictator
Chad:
Armed Groups Maraud Along Sudan Border
July 7, 2006
Civilians at Risk as Sudan, Chad Back Irregular Forces
Habre
victims uneasy about Senegal trial
July 7, 2006
By Alistair Thomson and Diadie Ba
"Brahimgate":
Brahim Deby Itno, son of Idriss Deby
Itno, ruler of Chad, sentenced in Paris, France to 6
months probation for illegal possession of a firearm and
250g of marijuana and 2g of cocaine,
06/03/06--
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Press
Release of the Rally of Democratic Forces ( RaFD):
capture of the town of TINE on the Sudanese border.
06/03/06 (
in French)
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Press
release of the United Front for Democratic Change (
FUCD)
[in French],
06/03/06
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Chad:
Back towards War? Africa
Report N°111, 1 June 2006,
The full report is currently only
available in
French.
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Strategic
Victimhood in Sudan,
By Alan
J. Kuperman,
Published:
May 31, 2006, Austin, Tex
Chad
Designates Enormous Wetland Reserve,
May
23, 2006
Chad
Blog, May 23, 2006, Source: AlertNet
Chad
opposition rejects Deby re-election, May
15, 2006
By Betel Miarom
Chad
rebels to fight on despite Darfur peace deal,
By Pascal
Fletcher,
Reuters
Friday, May 12, 2006; 9:07 AM
African
praise for Chad election causes astonishment,
Sat, May 05 2006 ,
By Pascal Fletcher...More
Low-turnout
Chad poll offers little hope of peace,
Thu May 4, 2006 3:32 PM GMT
By
Pascal Fletcher, ...More
Chad's
Deby rides in style but poll fails to excite,
Sat Apr 29, 2006 1:01 PM GMT,
By Pascal
Fletcher ...More
Press
Release of the Chadian Diaspora in the USA:
Chadian
Diaspora to Stage Protest at French Embassy.
Chadian Expatriates Hold Event to Protest French
Political Complicity in Chad---Washington
D.C., April 21, 2006:
On April 28, 2006, Chadian Diaspora USA will hold a
demonstration in front of the French Embassy,
located at 4101 Reservoir Road N.W., Washington, DC
20007. The event will run from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
EST.
Wednesday 26 April 2006....More
(pdf format, 20KB)
 'It's
Not Just Sudan That's to Blame'
Critics Say Chad's President Deflecting Attention
From Domestic Woes,
By Emily
Wax, Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, April 17, 2006; A08
...More
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Parliament to Open Debate on Third Term for Obasanjo,
By Gilbert da Costa,
Abuja,
24 April 2006
Denmark
Rejects UN Request to Take In Liberia's Taylor After
Trial,
By VOA News,
25 April 2006
UN
Slaps Sanctions on 4 Sudanese Involved In Darfur
Atrocities,
By Peter Heinlein
,
United Nations,
...More
25 April 2006
Africa
Malaria Day - A Call To Recommit To Reducing Malarial
Deaths,
By Cole Mallard
,
Washington
25 April
2006
Computer
Security: Taking the OECD's anti-spam solution one step
further,
By Stuart Corner
, Monday, 24 April 2006, - ...More
---See
also:
OECD wants global push to stop the scourge of
spam
University
of Texas Probes Computer Breach,
The
Associated Press
Sunday, April 23, 2006; 10:11 PM
...More
Security
Firms Bust Malware-for-Sale Racketeers,
By John P. Mello Jr.
TechNewsWorld , 04/20/06 8:27 AM PT
...More
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Chad:
European Parliament Calls for Trial of Hiss?e Habr?/span> ,
16 Mar 2006 20:42:18 GMT,
Source:
Human Rights Watch,----(Brussels,
March 16, 2006)
? The European Parliament today called on Senegal to bring
Hiss?e Habr?to trial or extradite the former dictator of Chad
to Belgium, where he is wanted to stand to trial. Habr?s
victims and their supporters cheered the European Parliament's
decision. Habr? who fled to Senegal in 1990 after an eight-year
rule marked by widespread atrocities, was first indicted in 2000
in Senegal.
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 Chad
rebels say will try to block May elections,
16
Mar 2006 14:57:43 GMT,
Source DAKAR,
March 15 (Reuters) - Chadian rebels fighting to overthrow
President Idriss Deby said on Thursday they planned to try to
stop him holding May elections, a day after his beleaguered
government announced it had foiled a coup plot.
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Chad
says it foiled plot to kill President Deby,
16 Mar 2006 14:57:43 GMT,
Source:
My response to the pro-Habre who threatens to shut me up for
my activism to bring that bloodthirsty dictator name Hissene
Habre to justice. I say " You ain't see nothing yet. Read my
response.
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 Coup
attempt foiled, government says,
15 Mar 2006 17:50:07 GMT,
Source:
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DAKAR, 15 March (IRIN) - The Chadian government on Wednesday
said it had thwarted an attempt by army defectors to shoot down
President Idriss Deby's plane on his return from a trip abroad.
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 If
you cannot judge him, you must send him to Belgium!,
by Ramadji Doumnande,
---January
27, 2006
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By
refusing to allow the extradition of former Chadian dictator
Hissene Habre, accused for the cold blood murder of more than
40,000 innocents Chadians and indicted in September 2005 by
Belgian judge Daniel Fransen, the gang of African dictators
gathered in Khartoum for the 6th
summit of the African Union has clearly supported impunity
on the African continent.
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 ''Chad's
Cycle of Instability Gains Momentum''
---January
18, 2006
- During December
2005 and into January 2006, accumulated and building internal
and external stresses on Chadian President Idriss Deby's 16-year
government in the central African Republic of Chad came together
and culminated in a spiking up of instability.
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Habre: Senegal?s Albatross, Litmus Test for Africa--
AngoP, November 28, 2005
---When he fled his
home country Chad in 1990 to Senegal on self-imposed exile after
he was toppled, ex-President Hissene Habre probably never
imagined that he would one day become the subject of an
international extradition saga now playing out between his host
nation and a far away European country, Belgium.
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A
Chadian detainee at GITMO, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.--Amnesty
International, 12/07/05
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The
World Bank: Oiling the wheels of corruption in Chad
Committee for the Abolition of Third World
Debt
by Eric Toussaint, vt Damien
Millet
Posted to the web December 5, 2005 , ...More
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The
future can take care of itself--AfricaToday
Posted to the web November 30, 2005
Desperate for a way out of the
present economic crisis in the country, the Chadian
government is seeking to amend a law which forces it to save
part of oil revenues for future generations.
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Arrest
of Habre is great news indeed
Daily Nation - Kenya, 11/30
The news
that the former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre has been
arrested by Senegal is great news for all who revere human
rights....More
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Hissene
Habre: Senegal`s albatross, litmus test for Africa
AngolaPress - Angola
... of the Brussels district, who after an historic
mission to Chad to investigate ... Bokasa, the
self-proclaimed emperor of the Central Africa Republic,
had received
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Chad's
Ex-Envoy Takes a Posting in Limbo
Washington
Post - United States
... diplomatic residence. He wasn't the Republic
of Chad's ambassador to the United States anymore; the
house no longer was his. After five
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Now
or Never
New Republic - Washington,D.C.,USA
... Geneina is only about 10 miles from the Chad-Darfur
border; and as tensions between Chad and Sudan escalate,
there is speculation that in the event of a
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Chad,
the most corrupted country in the world. Chad, a beautiful
country in disarray--by
Armel Ramadji Doumnande, 10/23/2005
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every year at this time, the NGO Transparency International,
known worldwide for its fight against corruption, has just
released its annual report of the most corrupted countries of
the globe. Without a surprise, Chad has the gold medal. Last
year, Chad occupied the 3rd place. It is normal that
the country ranks 1st this year. It is called making
progress in the wrong direction. Chad is in trouble.
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Bangladesh,
Chad come bottom of corruption list,
By
Gideon Long |
October 18,2005 --LONDON
(Reuters) - Bangladesh and Chad are among the most corrupt
countries in the world, rife with bribery and nepotism which
condemns millions of people to poverty, a report published on
Tuesday said.More |
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Oct 16, 2005 (PARIS)--
The last week Chadian deserter soldiers said they say they
are determined to drive out President Idriss Deby from
power, and they formed a new political movement, Radio
France Internationale reported.
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INTERVIEW:
The insurgency against
General Idriss Deby and his regime is growing. Is Deby's days as
ruler of Chad counted? Read the transcript of the first
interview given to Radio Alwihda by Mr. Yahya Dilo, leader of
the insurgents who are trying to kick Deby out of the
Presidency.
Read
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Chad--Travel
Warning for Americans Citizens--Oct. 5, 2005.
The
U.S State Department issues a travel warning today
for Americans citizens traveling to Chad. According
to intelligence, terrorists are threatening to
attack in the area.
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CHAD-SENEGAL:
Pressure mounts on Senegal to hand over ex Chadian president,
source:
irinnews -- Oct. 5, 2005 |
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August
11,2005 -- Wise Up and Act Up Fellow Chadians. |
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